It is just in the pettiness of its details, in its commonplace incidents, in the want of marked features and striking events, that the real lesson of the whole story lies.
If any romantic dreams had mixed with his resolution they at once faded away before the dull, commonplace reality.
Then the affair that seemed so difficult, straightened itself out in a perfectly natural, commonplace manner.
She was known to every woman in the village, but she had never become commonplace or indifferent.
It had been a very commonplace one, full of small economies.
At a little distance were some very commonplace and disjointed fragments of buildings, one of them suggesting a certain pathos by its very commonness and the complete wreck which it showed.
What you ought to have done, sir, is to describe me as a sort of ass--genial and all that sort of thing, but a commonplace sort of ass.
He had an irritating trick of employing extravagant gestures of a fairly commonplace kind.
From some delicate scruple, for which I gave him full credit, he left off climbing the stair to my study as heretofore, and if we met in the streets we soon parted with a commonplace word or two, and a pretty cool shake of the hand.
The visitor might have been a commonplace thief; an apparently deserted yacht was a tempting bait.
An ingenious insinuation, which, at the time it was made, had caused me to contemplate a new and much morecommonplace solution of our enigma than had ever occurred to us; but it was only a passing doubt, and I dismissed it altogether now.
But why, we are tempted to say to them, do you strain to keep up that poor, commonplace stuff, which would not be looked at if it stood not upon your heads?
Whoever goes from another American city to New York is struck by the strange faces he sees--phizzes and figures that make Hans Breitmann commonplace and Nast a portrait painter instead of a caricaturist.
Marian had the books which Jim had left in the cabin: commonplace Greek and Latin books, which might have belonged to anybody, save that on one fly leaf was written in a scrawling hand, "J.
Hence, language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
A place in which things are disposed in an orderly manner, so that they can be easily found, as the index of a book, a commonplace book, or the like.
The common ongoings of this our commonplace world, and everyday life.
A simple fact, wasn't it, a commonplace one, almost vulgar, you might say.
Sordid and commonplace enough are the details; simple and free from every kind of inflation the language in which they are narrated.
For a useful, if more commonplaceand merely bibliographical study of Sir Richard Phillipps, see W.
The commonplace town-dwellers seldom arouse his sympathy, never kindle his enthusiasm.
Her salvation was in a very small and commonplace thing.
Brother Bohannon was an extremely practical Christian; his creed applied to every day in the year and to the most commonplace acts.
Judith's heart beat to suffocation, the while she answered in commonplace phrase, "I shorely do.
He recalled the small, inexpressive, commonplace words in which they had tried to communicate with each other; he repeated them over to himself.
It expresses the great commonplace which so impressed itself on the men of that time, and of which his works are full.
They would consider me a dunce were they to suspect me of any such commonplace intent.
It is a commonplace to say how much better we do the historical novel nowadays than he did.
Simple though she was in language, patient of labour as the most laborious, I recognized in her a quiet nobleness of sentiment, which exalted above the commonplace the acts of her commonplace life.
More than once she spoke of commonplace incidents and mere acquaintances at L----.
You will find far less shrinking from the commonplace in many passages of the romantic Fenimore Cooper than in the pages of Mr. Meredith.
In its psychologic processes, the crowd is more commonplace and more traditional than is the individual.
Bending low over her hand, he said something commonplace in a very low tone, at the same time looking slyly out of the corner of his eye to see if Booth was taking it all in.
The humanity of the latter, natural and commonplace as it was, was an endearing recollection to Evelyn, precisely as it showed that his cold theory of disdain towards the mass did not affect his actual conduct towards individuals.
But change visits the Commonplace as well as the Romantic.
In these most commonplace artifices, there is yet a wild majesty that charms and fascinates me.
But a very commonplace view of the question might suffice to shake your system.
You're late," he said, speaking in a more commonplace tone.
The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
Above this commonplace level there are to be seen, nevertheless, two women who occupied a commanding position in the world, which was quite unusual.
I think," she said with evident effort to speak in a commonplace tone, "it would be quite futile to urge Cecil to come.
Whether or not there was any truth in Bulstrode's commonplace remark, it lingered in his host's mind all day.
Or well enough to live a commonplace life for her?
He may have been prepared for some exhibition of scorn, but he more than likely looked for a social and commonplaceending to their ride, but for what Carmen-Magda did he was entirely unprepared.
On these May days the glass roof admitted delightful gradations of glory to the commonplace atelier.
But in course of time, and particularly during his school career, it had been borne in upon him that Wellington is a burdensome name for a commonplace mortal to bear, and very wisely he had reversed the arrangement.
Is he so commonplace a man," I answered, "the man you love?
It was a dull, sombre house without, but one entered through its commonplace door as through the weed-grown rock into Aladdin's cave.
He spoke of commonplace things in a voice that lent dignity even to the weather.
Into such abyss of thecommonplace there was no fear of my dragging her, and for this I was glad.
None but a great man would have dared to utter such a glaring commonplace as that.
He appeared from his own account--if in connection with a theme so poetical I may be allowed a commonplace expression--to have had no luck with any of them.
Writers of noble sentiment, of elevated ideality, I found contained in men of commonplace appearance, of gross appetites, of conventional ideas.
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